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Recently, Rian Johnson shared his mindset going into The Last Jedi. In so doing, he also revealed why he under no circumstance should have been tasked with making a Star Wars movie in the first place. In this editorial, @AndreEinherjar will break down why, and in the process, give his verdict of Johnson’s follow-up movie, “Knives Out”.share
The establishment doesn't want good enforced. They want hope and dreams destroyed. They want despair and addiction to reign. They're deleting all the modern mythology we invented to replace the religion they deleted. You see this shit or you don't.
sharehe thought subverting expectations could be a replacement and stand in for actual good filmmaking including character development, story and even sets and rise en scene
shareThe reason TLJ suffered so badly was because it had no plan. Rian Johnson took everything that JJ had established and threw it out the window. None of the questions that were initially brought up in TFA were ever answered or even elaborated on… the right way.share
Rey’s parents? Rian gave us a weird metaphor.
Snoke? His entire character was just yeeted out the window. He was nothing. I remember thinking after seeing hi in TFA, “whoah, he’s like the next Palpatine, a mysterious dark lord who maybe knows the Force”. But nope. He was killed off in TLJ in the worst way possible (I mean, come on. How could he not have seen that lightsaber turning? It’s ridiculous), and then in Episode IX, it turns out that he really was nothing, just a random puppet that Palpatine used to control the First Order.
Oh, and the lightsaber fights. Horrible. I’ve never seen a more badly choreographed lightsaber duel (except, of course, Obi-Wan and Vader’s duel in ANH). I mean, Rey and Kylo’s fight in TFA was ok, but in TLJ? That throne room fight was awful. If you stop and look, they mess up the choreography multiple times.
Overall, Rian Johnson really did Star Wars bad with TLJ. He messed up what JJ had in store, and veered the sequel trilogy into an irreversible cataclysm of distaste and hate.